Kaiserschmarrn (Austrian Shredded Pancake)

Name: Kaiserschmarrn (Austrian Shredded Pancake)
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 2 cups (500 ml) milk; 1 tbsp sugar; 1 pinch salt; 1 ½ cups (350 grams) flour; 1 tbsp raisins; 2 tbsp (30 grams) butter or margarine; Icing sugar, for dusting

Kaiserschmarrn, which can be translated as "the emperor’s mess", is a traditional Austrian dish, which is renowned far across the Austrian borders.

15 min

Ingredients

3 eggs
2 cups (500 ml) milk
1 tbsp sugar
1 pinch salt
1 ½ cups (350 grams) flour
1 tbsp raisins
2 tbsp (30 grams) butter or margarine
Icing sugar, for dusting

Steps

Separate the whites from the yolks.
Put yolks, milk, sugar and salt in a bowl and whip well.
Fold in the flour while stirring thoroughly until the mass is pasty.
Add the raisins to the mixture.
Whisk the whites until they are stiff and then fold them into the mixture.
Melt the butter in a frying pan, and add the dough.
Cook until the pancake gets solid at the bottom.
Divide the mass into quarters with a wooden spoon or spatula and turn them over. After a little while start scrambling the quarters.
Keep turning the Kaiserschmarrn until it is done.
Serve with icing sugar on top.

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Adapted from “Kaiserschmarrn (Austrian Shredded Pancake)” in the Wikibooks Cookbook by its contributors, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reformatted for this site; this page's recipe text is shared under the same license.